Acardiac Fetus

"An acardiac fetus has a primary lethal abnormality, perhaps cardiac; if the fetus were a singleton, fetal death would ensue, but the chromosomally normal pump twin supports the acardiac fetus."

Potter's Pathology of the Fetus and Infant
Edited by Enid Gilbert-Barnes
Mosby 1996

from the Gross Specimens collection, courtesy of AUBMC, Department of Pathology

Photography by Børre Ludvigsen, July 1997